Isla Contoy: Away from the din and bustle of daily life if you want to enjoy your day in the midst of nature and sweet chirpings of thousand birds, then the Isla Contoy should be your destination.
There is a great National park and sanctuary in this Isla Contoy and this very place is the bird watchers’ paradise. The Isla Contoy is situated at the confluence at the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

It was declared as a National Park in the year 1988. Apart from the birds and lush green forests the beautiful beaches and the blue sea make one enchanted.

Parque Nacional Isla Contoy: Parque Nacional Isla Contoy is easily accessible from the Isla Mujeres. It will be a short day trip from Isla Mujeres. The verdant green island is actually an ideal home for at least 100 different species of birds.

Starting from olive cormorants, brown pelicans, brown boobies, frigates to turkey birds can be seen here. Not only these birds but also snowy egrets, white herons and the fantastic red flamingos are also found here.

Tourists, biologists, ornithologists from different parts of the world come over here to visit this beautiful national park. You can book your trip even from Isla Mujeres or even from Cancun. You have to contact the park headquarters in Isla Mujeres.

The trip gives one the chance to go deep into the verdant park and also can climb up the high tower in the midst of the jungle. The tower is about 27 m high. A park biologist will accompany you during the trip into the park. He will take you to the Laguna Puerto Viejo.

Laguna Puerto Viejo will captivate your mind by its pristine beauty and the natural charm. This place is considered to be the prime nestling place of the whole National Park.

It takes at least $100 per head to avail the trip. It is said that the money is used to maintain the park and to conduct different research projects. Apart form the park you can also see marine life through the crystal clear sea water surrounding the island.

There are different types of turtles, manta rays, snails, sardines, spiny lobsters and colourful reefs. Apart from that there are also various species of plants in this very island. The most important of them are the four species of mangrove that cover the major part of the island.